WCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Technical Update of Rules of Origin for ASEAN Member Customs Administrations

WCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Technical Update of Rules of Origin

for ASEAN Member Customs Administrations

5-9 June 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

The WCO organized the Sub-Regional Workshop on Technical Update of Rules of Origin for ASEAN Member Customs Administrations on 5-9 June 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 26 participants from 9 ASEAN Member Customs Administrations joined the Sub-regional Workshop. In addition, representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat and the ROCB A/P, Ms. Eva Suen, participated in this Workshop as observers.

The objective of this Workshop was to assist ASEAN Member Customs administrations to conduct a technical update of their Preferential Rules of Origin, i.e. product specific rules (PSRs) of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), in relation to HS 2017 Amendments. Accordingly, the Workshop program focused, in particular, on theoretical and practical aspects of technical update of rules of origin, as well as sharing experiences about the updating of tariff nomenclature and preferential rules of origin among ASEAN Member Customs administrations.